Wakestock at Woodstock

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27th - 29th June / Blenheim Palace, Woodstock, Oxfordshire
4th – 6th July / Abersoch, North Wales

TICKETS ON SALE: Friday 29th February at 9am

Wakestock 2008, Europe’s largest and most successful wakeboard music festival, is proud to announce Groove Armada, The Streets, Supergrass, Funeral for a Friend, The Hoosiers, Hadouken, Young Knives, Metronomy, Jazzie B and Audio Bullys plus a load more are all confirmed to perform this year. Not only this, but Wakestock, sponsored by Relentless Energy Drink, have also announced a second date and a new prestigious location within the amazing grounds of Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire, from 27th – 29th June 2008. It is the first time that a contemporary music festival has been held within the grounds of Blenheim Palace and the Wakestock organisers are thrilled to have found such a fantastic venue for their second festival.

Now in its 9th sell out year, Wakestock Abersoch, North Wales (4th – 6th July 2008) and the new Wakestock Blenheim Palace promise to serve up a double helping of strong rip roaring music, world class wakeboarding, on-site camping and a weekend full of exhilarating on and off water entertainment. Better than that, whichever Wakestock visitors choose this year, the best scenery and the coolest festival sites are guaranteed.  Abersoch boasts stunning beaches with some incredible shore breaks, and the site at Blenheim Palace sits within the awe-inspiring Parkland next to the picturesque lakes.

Wakeboarding is the world’s fastest growing watersport with over 3 million participants worldwide. Wakeboarding began back in the 1970’s when surfers who were bored of waiting for the waves began pulling their boards behind a speedboat with a ski rope. The summer equivalent to snowboarding, wakeboarding has now grown hugely over the past 10 years and is no longer the little brother of the boardsports world. If you add on the wakeskating community you have a boardsports family that outnumber surfers by more then two to one.  The riding you see at Wakestock includes an elite selection of some of the world’s best riders, you get the opportunity to see them throw down massive tricks, and hit some of the biggest slider rails in any competition right in front of the crowds. The spectators are able to see every slide, every trick and every stack whilst standing only metres away from the action – wakeboarding at this level is an awesome spectator sport.

“2008 is going to be the Year of Wakestock!” says Wakestock Founder, Mark Durston. “We’ve built the festival up over the last 8 years in Abersoch to be a really cool mix of the world’s best wakeboarders, bands & DJ’s right at the forefront of the live music scene and a lifestyle that is unrivalled by any other festival! With the help of Stuart Galbraith, CEO of Kilimanjaro, to develop the festival and to add a second venue as stunning as Blenheim Palace was an opportunity we’ve relished. The grounds at Blenheim Palace, as a festival venue, are first class. Add to this a stunning lake sat right in front of the Palace and you have the perfect setting to showcase the coolest sport on water”.

The creator of Download and Wireless festivals, Stuart Galbraith, believes Wakestock represents the future of festivals: “Everyone knows the British festival calendar is getting busier each year and promoters need to deliver more than just a good stage line up. Wakestock combines this package with its programme of world class wakeboarding, music and full on entertainment that music artists have been keen to sign up to”

It’s the first time that Blenheim Palace has played host to such a unique event and Chief Executive, John Hoy, believes that the World Heritage setting provides an ideal backdrop for Wakestock “We are delighted to have the opportunity to add this exciting event to our calendar and to stage an event geared specifically for the younger audience who will attend. We are really looking forward to working closely with the organisers and to welcoming all visitors to the event”.

Tickets will officially go on sale on Friday 29th March at 9am with a “weekend” ticket priced at £85 and a “weekend with camping” ticket at £110 (booking fee and P&P not included)

Ticket master: Blenheim 0844 847 2437 Abesrsoch 0844 847 2439

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T-Mobile Team up with Great Escape 2007

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The Great Escape Festival is delighted to announce that it has a new headline partner for 2007. T-Mobile Street Gigs are joining forces with The Great Escape as the event moves into its second year.

T-Mobile Street Gigs are famed for their surprising and unique take on music and gigs. Intimate and extremely credible, Street Gigs have changed many people’s perception about what is the perfect gig. Head of Sponsorship for T-Mobile, Toby Hester has identified why The Great Escape is the perfect partner. “Although there may be over 5000 people attending across the 3 days, the gigs will take place predominately in small venues, this is similar to Street Gigs, but what we really want to do is surprise people. We will be introducing guest appearances, secret performances and exclusive sets all set in unusual locations across Brighton. We really want everyone to go away having had the best experience ever and I’m sure they will”.

Previously T-Mobile have performed Street Gigs in the Natural History Museum with The Strokes, The Streets in a Lighthouse, Mika in a Circus Tent and The Rakes in a kebab shop. We can’t wait to see what they’re planning for The Great Escape – more details to come soon!

The Great Escape Festival, which, as you all know by now returns on the 17th-19th May and looks set to bring the best of live music from across the World back to Brighton is proud to announce 586 (UK), (We Are) Performance (UK), The Airborne Toxic Event (US), The Alones (UK), British Sea Power (UK), Damn Arms (Austrailia), Dananananaykroyd (UK), The Dykeenies (UK), The Early Years (UK), Findlay Brown (UK), From The Wreckage (UK), Future of The Left (UK), The Holloways (UK), James Yorkston (UK), Karima Francis (UK), Last Gang (UK), The Lawries (UK), The Loose Salute (UK), Luke Toms (UK), Make Good Your Escape (UK), Maps (UK), Maths Class (UK), Micah P Hinson (US), One Night Only (UK), Ox.Eagle.Lion.Man (UK), Polytechnic (UK), Reverend And The Makers (UK), Robots In Disguise (UK), Rosa Fears (UK), Sam Isaacs (UK), Scouting for Girls (UK), Sergeant (UK), Small White Light (UK), Soho Dolls (UK), The Sonic Hearts (UK) and South Central (UK) have all been added to this year’s ever growing line up of hot talent.

Previously The Great Escape Festival announced that the The Magic Numbers will be accompanying the finest up and coming UK artists to be added to this year’s bill including The Rakes, Mumm-Ra and many more. They will join the cream of new talent from around the World including Sex Panther (Australia), Goose (Belgium), CSS (Brazil) Patrick Wilson (Canada) On No Ono (Denmark) Magenta Skycode (Finland), Nouvelle Vague (France), Polarkreis 18 (Germany), The Immediate (Ireland), zZz (The Netherlands), Die Die Die (New Zealand), 12 Days (Norway), 1990’s (Scotland), Nude Girls (South Africa), Hello Saferide (Sweden), Navel (Switzerland), and Willy Mason (United States).

Also included in this exciting selection of the most hotly tipped artists from around the globe for 2007 are:

that Tiny Dancers (UK), Captain (UK), Candie Payne (UK), Consequences (SWE), Cut Off Your Hands (NZ), Foals (UK), Gallows (UK), Jason Pegg (Clearlake) (UK), Land of Talk (CAN), Look See Proof (UK), The Midway State (CAN), Minotaurs (UK), The Moths (UK), Palladium (UK), The Race (UK), These New Puritans (UK), The Young Plan (UK), Children Collide (AUS), Dance With Voices (AUS), Hilltop Hoods (AUS), Bonde do role (BRA), Circlesquare (CAN), Dan Mangan (CAN), Land of Talk (CAN), Les Breastfeeders (CAN), Patrick Watson (CAN), The Besnard Lakes (CAN), We’re Marching On (CAN), On No Ono (DEN), Adele (UK), Air Traffic (UK), Ali Love (UK), Archie Bronson Outfit (UK), Art Brut (UK), Black Ghosts (UK), Cherry Ghost (UK), Dan le Sac vs Scroobius Pip (UK), Does It Offend You Yeah (DJ Set) (UK), Fear of Flying (UK), Foals (UK), Frank Turner(UK), Friendly Fires (UK), Gallows (UK), Ghosts (UK), Good Shoes (UK), Hadouken (UK), Help She Can’t Swim (UK), Hot Club De Paris (UK), I LiKE TRAiNS (UK), I Say Marvin (UK), I Was a Cub Scout (UK), Indigo Moss (UK), Jack Penate (UK), Johnny Panic (UK), Kate Nash (UK), Kid Harpoon (UK), Kubichek (UK), Laura Marling (UK), Mechanical Bride (UK), Metro Riots (UK), Mr Hudson (UK), Mumm-Ra (UK), Neil’s Children (UK), Neon Plastix (UK), Orange Lights (UK), Passenger (UK), Peggy Sue and the Pirates (UK) The Pigeon Detectives (UK), Ripchord (UK), The Dash (UK), The Draytones (UK), The Enemy (UK), The Heights (UK), The Hours (UK), The Kissaway Trail (UK), The Metros (UK), The Moths (UK), The Noisettes (UK), The Rakes (UK), The Sigma (UK), The Strange Death Of Liberal England (UK), The Whip (UK), Trailing Laces (UK), Vincent Vincent and the Villains (UK), Xerox Teens (UK),Yes Boss (UK), Yourcodenameis:milo (UK), Youth Movies (UK), Damn Seagulls (FIN) Rubik (FIN), Peter Von Poehl (FRA), Spleen (FRA), Daniel Benjamin (GER), Jakobinarina (IRE), Channel One (IRE), Textures (HL), Adjagas (NOR), The Lionheart Brothers (NOR), We Are The Physics (SCO), Johnossi (SWE), Elvis Perkins (USA), The Envy Corps (USA) and The Prayers (USA).

The Great Escape Festival will be making regular announcements over the coming weeks as more and more bands and speakers are confirmed for this highly anticipated event.

The Great Escape Festival will continue every night into the wee hours with parties hosted by some of the most respected labels, DJs and club promoters – more details to come soon!

There are a very limited number of tickets still for sale through The Great Escape website: www.escapegreat.com/tickets. You can also purchase tickets from our box office: 08700 400 076, Rounder Records: 19, Brighton Square, Brighton, East Sussex BN1 1HD Tel: 01273 325440 and from Resident 28, Kensington Gardens, Brighton, East Sussex BN1 4AL Tel: 01273 606312.

Good news for Londoners attending The Great Escape

Thanks to a special new night train service which leaves Brighton at 23.19, you can soak up all the entertainment at this year’s Great Escape Festival with no worries about getting back to London. The train will stop at East Croydon and Clapham Junction and arrive at Victoria just after midnight in time for the last tubes home.
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Acts line up for Camden Crawl 2007

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Camden Crawl 2007CAMDEN CRAWL 2007
THURSDAY 19TH & FRIDAY 20TH APRIL
2 DAYS * 90 ARTISTS * 15 VENUES
FREE DBL CD PROGRAMME * AFTERSHOW PARTIES & DJS
DAYTIME ACTIVITIES & PERFORMANCES
1 ALL-ACCESS TICKET * CAMDEN TOWN

Off the back of two sold out years, London’s annual promenade of the best in cutting edge British and International music expands to a new format this April. An event billed by the NME as “the unofficial start of the Festival Season” and established as an essential appointment in the live music connoisseur’s diary, the 2007 Crawl brings together a diverse line up of 90 of the most exciting new talents performing throughout 15 central Camden venues over 2 days.

Kicking off at noon each day the extra hours promise a varied host of new events ranging from acoustic & impromptu live performances and panel led fan forums to pop quizzes and rock ‘n’ roll walking tours leading into each evening’s unique showcase of new artists, DJs and surprise guests and continuing into the wee hours with club nights and after show parties.

This year 40 artists will appear on both the 19th and 20th, giving festival goers a second chance to catch the hottest new acts they may have missed due to line up clashes and venue capacity limitations. Fifty additional acts will perform one-off shows on each of the days.

Upon arrival, each ‘Crawler’ is presented with an all-access wristband and double CD programme featuring a track by each artist performing across both days of the event as well as guide map and timetable for the evening’s proceedings. In keeping with the exploratory spirit and musical democracy of past Crawls, the full line-ups and stage times remain a closely guarded secret until each night. Surprise guests may appear at any time or any venue, so festival-goers are advised to arrive early.

History…

Prior to the sold out events in 2005 and 2006, London’s Camden Town hosted the event for three consecutive years (1995 - 1997).

The Crawl brought together a huge line up of inventive new bands and established artists with an aim to support the development of new music in Britain through the aesthetic quality of the bill, a low cost ticket for music fans and by building a sense of camaraderie with the equal billing of artists. These now legendary historic Crawls featured early performances by Snow Patrol, Beth Orton, Mogwai and such luminaries as Echo and the Bunnymen, Moby, Tanya Donnelly and the venerable Wedding Present.

The re-inauguration event in 2005 and subsequent 2006 Crawl showcased early performances by then rising talents who went on to make a significant impression on these shores.

These artists include:, The Magic Numbers, Hard-Fi, Maximo Park, The Subways, Kooks, Mystery Jets, The Cribs, Hope Of The States, Hot Chip, Nine Black Alps, Secret Machines, Sway, The Fratellis, Klaxons, The Automatic, Paolo Nutini, Guillemots, Plan B, The Pipettes, Lethal Bizzle, Dirty Pretty Things and many more….

Influential established artists such as Graham Coxon, Andrew Weatherall, Le Tigre and Supergrass also made an appearance alongside seminal heroes Buzzcocks and The Slits.

PRACTICAL INFORMATION:

THURSDAY 19TH & FRIDAY 20TH APRIL 12PM - 4AM

2 day passes priced at £45.00 & single day tickets £26.50

Tickets are to be exchanged for wristbands which allow free entry to each of the participating venues throughout the night as individual capacities per- mit. Wristbands and CD programmes announcing the full line ups and timings for the event are obtainable from 12:00 pm onward each day at the Camden Crawl ticket exchange point located at: MONSTA(18 Kentish Town Road, Camden, London NW1).

Please note that 2-day pass holders will need to return to ticket exchange to collect Friday’s timetable.

Festival goers are advised to arrive early as there will be a full daytime programme on both days from 1:00 pm. Doors open for evening schedule at 5:30 pm most venues. There will be late night after show parties featuring live bands and renowned DJs until 4:00 am both days.

INITIAL LINE UP ANNOUNCEMENT

APPEARING BOTH DAYS IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER:

Air Traffic / Akala / The Barker Band / Blood Red Shoes / Bonde Do Role / Cajun Dance Party / Calvin Harris / Cherry Ghost / Dan Le Sac vs. Scroobius Pip / Emmy The Great / Example / Findlay Brown / Foals / Friendly Fires / Hadouken! / Hot Club De Paris /I Am Kloot / I Was ACub Scout / Kid Harpoon / Killa Kella / Kitty Daisy & Lewis / Late Of The Pier / Marvin The Martian / Kate Nash / Jack Penate Professor Green / Pull Tiger Tail / Shy Child / Statik / These New Puritans / Tigerforce / Xerox Teens

THURSDAY ONLY:
Adele / Fear Of Music / Foreign Beggars / Goose / i Like Trains / Johnossi / Loney, Dear / Laura Marling / Malcom Middleton / New Young Pony Club / Ox.Eagle.Lion.Man / Popular Workshop / Shakes / Simple Kid

FRIDAY ONLY:
Alterkicks / Chrome Hoof / The Dykeenies / Fear Of Flying / Eamon Hamilton (Brakes) / The Hot Puppies / Hafdis Huld / I Say Marvin / Ali Love / Pete And The Pirates / Polytechnic / Roll Deep / Vincent Vincent And The Villains / The Whip

WITH MANY MORE ARTISTS & SURPRISE GUESTS….PLUS matinee performances, fringe activity, aftershow parties and MUCH more….TO BE ANNOUNCED SOON….

15 Participating Venues & curators are as follows:
Koko (Sonic Mook) / Electric Ballroom (FROG) / Barfly (John Kennedy X-Posure) NW1 (Drowned In Sound ) Underworld (Kerrang!) / Dublin Castle (Bugbear) / Lock 17 (Club Fandango) / Enterprise (Boss Music) / Purple Turtle (Artrocker) / Oh! Bar (Steve Lamacq) / Bullit (Moshi Moshi & Grecoroman) / Earl Of Camden (Fallout) / The Black Cap (Queens Of Noize) / Monsta (Shuffle - 250) / Cuban Bar (Adventures Close To Home)

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Wall Of Sound to release Shock Rock compilation

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Cover ArtWall Of Sound is delighted to bring together names as respected and diverse as Infadels, The Gossip, Shy Child, Soulwax and DFA 1979 for this new compilation album which celebrates the musical revolution that is Shock Rock.

Guitar bands are using synths more than ever, dance music is played live, electronic beats writhe under live bass whilst drums and woodblocks and cowbells tussle with samplers – the twin worlds of indie and dance are locked in a sweaty mess under the glare of a thousand glowsticks and it sounds amazing.

The full tracklisting for the compilation is as follows:

1. Metronomy - You Could Easily Have Me
2. Shakes - Sister Self Doubt (Alternate mix)
3. Sunshine Underground - I Aint Losing Any Sleep (Serge Santiago’s vocal edit)
4. The Gossip - Standing In The Way Of Control
5. CSS - Lets Make Love And Listen To Death From Above
6. Infadels - Girl That Speak No Words (Nightmoves remix single edit)
7. A Human - Black Moon (Original demo version)
8. DFA 1979 - Black History Month (Alan Braxe & Fred Falke remix)
9. Toyshop – Violent Light
10. Whitey - Wrap It Up
11. Zoot Woman – Grey Day
12. Lo Fi Fnk - Change Channel
13. Shy Child - Down On Yourself
14. Soulwax - NY Excuse (Fast version)
15. Friendly Fires - Your Love

Buy it: Shock Rock

There will also be a Shock Rock tour, featuring bands from the compilation. The full list of dates is as follows:

February
15th – Faversham, Leeds – Shy Child, Metronomy, A Human & Wall of Sound djs
16th – Fabric, London – Infadels, Shy Child, Metronomy, Friendly Fires, A Human & djs tbc
17th – Plug, Sheffield – Shy Child, Metronomy, A Human, Paul Epworth (dj) & Wall of Sound djs
18th – Medicine Bar, Birmingham – Shy Child, Metronomy, Lo-Fi Fnk, A Human & Wall of Sound djs
19th – Roadhouse, Manchester – Shy Child, Metronomy, A Human & Wall of Sound djs
20th – Arches, Glasgow – Shy Child, Metronomy, A Human & Wall of Sound djs
21st – Thekla, Bristol – Shy Child, Metronomy, A Human & Wall of Sound djs
22nd – Stealth, Nottingham – Shy Child, Metronomy, A Human & Wall of Sound djs
23rd – Charlotte, Leicester – Shy Child, Metronomy, Lo-Fi Fnk, A Human & Wall of Sound djs
24th – Brighton, Audio – Shy Child, Metronomy, A Human & Wall of Sound djs

More Info: www.wallofsound.net






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